It’s Almost Time for Braid on PSN

Joel DeYoung from Hothead Games here. At long last, we’re thrilled to be able to tell the PlayStation community that Braid will officially be making its way to the PlayStation Network on November 12 for $14.99. The gang here at Hothead has been working hard to bring this amazing game to you as soon as possible.

Along with today’s announcement, we thought you’d enjoy taking a peek at the Braid trailer and a few screens of the gameplay experience. Check ‘em out below:

Stay tuned next week to catch an in-depth look at bringing Braid to PSN – It’s been a real pleasure working with Jonathan Blow and Sony on this project and I’m looking forward to sharing more details of that effort with everyone here. See you soon.

YES!!!! Finally a 2d platformer. Day one buy.
Thank god. We get Trine and Braid. WOW my head will explode.But damn all these good games coming out this month.How am i going to juggle all these games? But anyways 15 dollars is fine
you [DELETED] are tight wads, shut up and play it already you know it’s going to rock and you’ll get your money’s worth

Please, please tell me that this will has lossless audio assets. (24-bit would definitely be a bonus.) It’s such an important aspect of the game, and HD audio would really help justify the price point. I don’t care about surround sound too much, but lossless is really a necessity since the $6.99 games on PSN have done this consistently (for the most part).

Besdies the audio being HD, are the graphics 1080p native? Critter Crunch has shown that a lovingly animated 2D game done in 1080p can look even better than most 3D games in 720p.

Im sorry but this game has been out for some time on PC and XBL for 1+ year now and you finally put it here for $15? Sorry I will pass. Especially since there are other games releasing tomorrow that are cheaper and are new that have caught my attention.

I don’t understand how everyone is complaining about the price saying they had to wait.

You guys don’t have computers? It’s been out for a while there, and it’s still $15 on there, so why should PS3 be any different? I guess where there’s an opportunity to complain about something, people will jump on it

I agree with others about the game’s age – I don’t find paying full price for a game this old and one that has already been out on other platforms (that, for whatever reason, has stayed away from PSN for this long) as appealing.

While I do want to play it, I guess I’ll wait until this game is well below the $10 mark before I buy it.

$15?! What extras are in it? There has to be a ton of extras for a port to still cost that much. If there’s no extras then I’ll just wait until it’s $5 before I buy it. If it never gets to $5 then I’ll never buy it. I’m not going to buy leftovers from another system unless you put extras in it.

If you wanted $15 for the game then you should’ve made the game available on the PS3 to begin with.

I won this game last year from the VGA’s. It’s a good game overall, not what I expected, but it was really fun. I’m not sure about paying $15 to get trophies for it, but maybe I’ll catch it when it’s on sale for $10, or maybe… You guy arent doing a PSN Braid give away are you?

Joel,
Since you’ve obviously stuck around to field a question or two it’d be wise on your part to take the dislike of the price back to others who make the decisions and let this new web 2.0 work to improve your games sales as opposed to ignoring it.

Good news. I always wanted to play Braid, but I couldn’t bare to power on my X-Box and feed it $, even for such an interesting title. Glad I’ll finally get to give it a try on the best console made today. Thanks!

I will be purchasing this game when it releases. One of the reasons I purchased my 360 was for this game. I will gladly purchase it again to support this masterpiece of an experience. Plus this means more trophies, lol, I’m kidding.

This pretty much seems like too little too late. This was released so long ago on XBLA it doesn’t even seem relevant anymore. Especially considering we’re getting the same price and seemingly no new features. Just and extended waiting period for a game I never finished in the first place. Back to Uncharted, Borderlands and Brutal Legend for me..

you know im really tired of these games coming out at $15..$20…$40….CMON! That is totally rediculous for a game that isnt even that good to me why on earth would i spend that much for something that MAY be ok but MAY be horrible too. No way, i havent bought a game on PSN for a long time because the price points are WAY to high for what im getting in my point. Ill save my money for 3-4 games and get a REAL game like Batman A.A. Sheesh. Greedy devs thinking their stuff they made up in 6 months or less is worth 1/4 price of a retail game.

I have to agree with 90% of everyone else posting an issue they may feel towards the price for this game. For a game simply released at a later date with no additional content can not be justified at the stated price. To pass the cost of additional production and licensing to the consumer is unjust. Is it not the same game already released 1 yr+ on XBL and PC? Is there anything new? I would like to buy this game but I can’t justify a premium price for an old re-release with no additional content.

Well, you really shouldn’t be surprised that people are getting pissed off at the prospect of being sloppy seconds for the same rate. Honestly, I was going to say pretty much everyone else here came in to say. I see no reason to, now that it’s all been said.

You what’s funny about all these people complaining about the $15 price point? Its that, even if this game was released a year ago, it would still costs $15 today. People here seem to think that downloaded games decrease in value as time goes by. It doesn’t work that way, this isn’t some old game taking up space on a shelf at some retailer.

That is why game prices go down, because they are old games that are taking up shelf space for newer ones coming out. They need to get rid of those in order to make room. When you have something that is downloaded, it not taking up space from a newer game. That’s why they don’t receive price drops. The only time that they do is when either the game sells poorly or its part of some special promotion.

If you are getting so huffy over Braid’s price, why would you continue to pay $10 for a game like Everyday Shooter when that was released over a year ago? Besides, its not like the developers are giving any special treatment to a single platform since Braid costs the exact same amount on the PS3 as it does on the 360.

Wow I’m surprised it’s already almost out. I thought it would be out next year. Finally someone knows how toget a game out earlier rather than later. But this is going to not sell with Modern Warfare coming out that Tuesday.

been wanting this game since i seen it on 360 but only own the ps3 and would normally pick it up day one but just got trine(awesome game)mw2 next week and the gow collection the week after that and not to mention how much sleep ive lost (and counting) over uncharted 2